Faktors and Forms of Development of Young People in the GDR (1968 - 1980) IS 1 - 1980 (12th Wave - Cross-Section)

Recording typical forms and courses of personality development
of GDR-youth in the 70's as well as their significant determinants.
Topics:
attitude to chosen occupation;
reputation of the occupation in public, reasons;
attitudes to economical use of material, discipline at work,
fulfilling the norm, quality work etc.;
life goals, value orientations;
factors of stimulus at work;
characteristics of activity exercised;
job satisfaction;
sense of well-being,
recognition in work brigade, sense of responsibility;
ability to achieve;
attitude to FDJ work at work,
MMM/innovator movement;
self-assessment regarding work performance;
realization of work morale normatives;
occupational plans - remaining in occupation and company, change;
number of jobs up to now;
use of forms of further education and qualification;
attitude to path of occupation and training;
facultative scientific-technical commitment while in school;
desire for school with higher demands;
highest school degree, final grades in selected subjects;
political information practices;
preferred mass medium;
frequency of use of publications, radio and TV broadcasts,
differentiating content;
choice of radio and TV station;
attitude to life decisions up to now;
pride in FDJ membership;
participation, interest in various forms of social-political life;
military service, soldier for a fixed time;
ideological value orientations - identification with the GDR, socialism,
communism, protection of the socialist state, the ethic values of socialism;
condemning the capitalist social system, the imperialist order in the FRG,
image of the enemy;
interest in political events;
proud citizen;
world view, attitude to religiousness of young people,
reconciliation of religious activity and progressive views;
judgement on one's own socialist class stand, one's own social activity;
Life goals and life planning:
willingness to fulfill social duty,
experience and pleasure in structuring material life, future work,
relations to collective, acquiring material things,
structuring mental-cultural life, goals of self-realization,
good work as ethical principle, effort for other people,
sincerity in life, will to self-education,
striving for justice, striving for education, single-mindedness,
political-philosophical orientations etc.;
unrealistic life goals in childhood;
desire for children, one's own children;
most favorable age of a woman for her 1. child,
age at marriage for man and woman;
personal age at marriage;
employment of spouse;
counseling ability of parents regarding structuring leisure time,
work morale, child-raising, political-philosophical decisions;
recognition of mother and father as model for conduct;
parents in the innovator movement;
personal share of house work realized;
satisfaction with political, technical, social, personal
and other conditions such as
political development of the GDR, policies regarding the FRG,
housing situation, financial situation, material possession,
partner relations, possibilities of qualification, social support at work,
work activity, life in general etc.;
attitude to age at first intimate relations, age of first intimate partner;
age at first sexual intercourse;
age at first menstruation;
participation in projects of the MMM and
innovator movement in the last three years;
showing the exhibit;
international technical knowledge of scientific-technical progress;
self-assessment regarding successful technical participation in the MMM;
marital status;
one's own residence, application for residence,
housing conditions, comfort of one's home;
employment, personal income and that of partner;
apprentice pay in the last year as apprentice;
FDJ membership, age at leaving, if appropriate;
functions in FDJ, member of the pioneer organization;
SED membership;
preferred structuring leisure time on weekend;
frequency of going to the movies, dance events;
reading belletristic books;
condition of health;
complaints;
time lost at work;
smoking habits;
consumption habits with alcoholic beverages;
social class, work area and management function of parents,
personal classification of social class;
personal occupational qualification;
age of parents, attending a grammar school in Leipzig.